Providable, a Christmas present

This is a terrific little tool that Howard Oakley released as a Christmas gift to the Mac community.(...)

#apps #macos #provenance #quarantine #security #tools #xattr

https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2025/12/26/1000

Which extended attributes does macOS Tahoe preserve?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/17/which-extended-attributes-does-macos-tahoe-preserve/

Hunting extended attributes with an update to xattred

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/10/hunting-extended-attributes-with-an-update-to-xattred/

Last Week on My Mac: Making better use of security extended attributes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/07/last-week-on-my-mac-making-better-use-of-security-extended-attributes/

Explainer: Data and metadata

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/22/explainer-data-and-metadata/

https://github.com/ArkThis/AHAlodeck/blob/main/res/0byte-db_entry.png

#xattr #linux #ext4 #zfs #samba #smb

Right-click-edit-metadata happily in-use over 1 year now: Amazing!

#AHAlodeck #Recoll #SENlabs

DBIN | A distro-agnostic package manager for Linux 🛠️

Interesting times in uniting all Linux distributions even closer after the likes (not package managers) of Flatpaks and Snaps.

◉Dbin only accesses the configs and binaries which user requests
◉Every binary that dbin has in its repositories entirely self-contained
◉Dbin doesn't use a database - it can even be used without installing it
◉Dbin marks the programs that it installs/fetches using XATTR
◉Currently 3105 packages in the repositories (things like Steam and Lutris already in)

Users are encouraged to create a pull request, open an issue, starting a discussion or making suggestions!

👉 https://github.com/xplshn/dbin

#dbin #Linux #packagemanager #distro #agnostic #software #distribution #XATTR

Ура, расширенные атрибуты в похапе заработали как надо!
Была задумка описывать файлы с книжками в домашней библиотеке через метаатрибуты, как в BeOS

#php #xattr

So, #xattr extended attributes. I'm playing with some different filesystems, and it looks like #btrfs has a 4k limit, where the attributes need to fit into a single block (?) or extent or something. I'm not sure why, as many other modern filesystems allow essentially unlimited key/value data.

So, xattrs are useful for metadata, but if you forget the `-X` flag with rsync sadness ensues. What are some useful alternatives that are filesystem independent? Metastore?

https://github.com/przemoc/metastore